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  2. Ribosomal RNA - Wikipedia

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    Ribosomal ribonucleic acid (rRNA) is a type of non-coding RNA which is the primary component of ribosomes, essential to all cells. rRNA is a ribozyme which carries out protein synthesis in ribosomes.

  3. Ribosome - Wikipedia

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    Ribosomal RNA composition for prokaryotes and eukaryotes. The ribosome is a complex cellular machine. It is largely made up of specialized RNA known as ribosomal RNA (rRNA) as well as dozens of distinct proteins (the exact number varies slightly between species). The ribosomal proteins and rRNAs are arranged into two distinct ribosomal pieces ...

  4. Translation (biology) - Wikipedia

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    Overview of eukaryotic messenger RNA (mRNA) translation Translation of mRNA and ribosomal protein synthesis Initiation and elongation stages of translation involving RNA nucleobases, the ribosome, transfer RNA, and amino acids The three phases of translation: (1) in initiation, the small ribosomal subunit binds to the RNA strand and the initiator tRNA–amino acid complex binds to the start ...

  5. Ribozyme - Wikipedia

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    The concept of "ribonucleic acids as catalysts" circumvents this problem. RNA, in essence, can be both the chicken and the egg. [8] In the 1980s, Thomas Cech, at the University of Colorado Boulder, was studying the excision of introns in a ribosomal RNA gene in Tetrahymena thermophila. While trying to purify the enzyme responsible for the ...

  6. Ribosome biogenesis - Wikipedia

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    If defective ribosomal subunits do happen to make it out of the nucleolus and into the cytoplasm, there is a second surveillance system in place there to target malfunctioning ribosomes in the cytoplasm for degradation. Certain mutations in residues of the large ribosome subunit will actually result in RNA decay and thus degradation of the unit.

  7. RNA - Wikipedia

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    Transfer RNA (tRNA) is a small RNA chain of about 80 nucleotides that transfers a specific amino acid to a growing polypeptide chain at the ribosomal site of protein synthesis during translation. It has sites for amino acid attachment and an anticodon region for codon recognition that binds to a specific sequence on the messenger RNA chain ...

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  9. 18S ribosomal RNA - Wikipedia

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    18S ribosomal RNA (abbreviated 18S rRNA) is a part of the ribosomal RNA in eukaryotes. It is a component of the Eukaryotic small ribosomal subunit (40S) and the cytosolic homologue of both the 12S rRNA in mitochondria and the 16S rRNA in plastids and prokaryotes .